Definición de hole-and-corner en inglés:

adjetivo

To talk to a foreigner is no longer a sign of political unreliability, and conversations do not have to be carried out in a hole-and-corner fashion, behind walls, with one nervous eye open for spies and eavesdroppers.

Unless the districts were considerable they were always more or less a kind of hole-and-corner government.

Instead, they indulged in their usual hole-and-corner and devious manoeuvres.